Jan 17 Poll: Support for Health Care Repeal Drops As the House of Representatives gears up to vote this week on a proposed repeal of the health care reform bill, public support for the move is falling. Only 25 percent of people polled now support repealing the health care… Continue reading
Jan 17 Giffords' Condition Upgraded to Serious, Chinese President Calls for 'Practical Cooperation' Ahead of Visit Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' condition was upgraded to serious after her ventilator was removed. The congresswoman from Arizona has been breathing on her own and communicating by hand signals with her doctors. Giffords was shot in the head eight days… Continue reading
Jan 14 Republican Party Ousts Steele, Elects Priebus Chairman Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. Roll Call/Getty Images It took seven rounds of balloting, but when all the votes were finally tallied Friday the early frontrunner to replace Michael Steele as chairman of the Republican National Committee secured… Continue reading
Jan 14 Watch Shields and Brooks on Obama's Tucson Speech, Calls for Political Civility Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks analyze the week's news, including the president's address at the Tucson memorial service. Continue watching
Jan 14 RNC Chairman Michael Steele Drops Bid For Second Term Michael Steele emerges from closed door meeting with supporters and heads to ballroom at Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. Photo by David Chalian Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has ended his candidacy for a second term. Continue reading
Jan 14 President Obama, Secretary Clinton Remember Ambassador Holbrooke President Obama was joined by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, and a crowd of dignitaries Friday at the Kennedy Center for a service honoring Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, the special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan… Continue reading
Jan 14 At Arizona Hospital, Spontaneous Vigil Grows They just keep coming. When we arrived in Tucson on Sunday afternoon, we went to University Memorial Hospital, where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was in intensive care. It was chaotic. Frustrated police officers did their best to direct heavy traffic… Continue reading
Jan 14 Patchwork Nation: The Gun Law Divide When Congress returns to Washington to begin work in earnest following the shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 other people in Tucson, gun control advocates will likely be making the case for new measures. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D- N.Y.,… Continue reading
Jan 14 Biden Chooses Clinton Vet as New Chief of Staff Vice President Joe Biden announced today that Bruce Reed, who was most recently executive director of the Simpson-Bowles debt commission and is a veteran of the Clinton administration, will replace Ron Klain as his chief of staff. The move… Continue reading
Jan 14 Of Symbols and Meaning: Part Two Last week in this space, I mused about how quick we can be to over interpret events and ascribe tenuous meaning to actions that so often defy explanation. Less than 48 hours after I posted that column, 19 people… Continue reading